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Can’t Update OWC SSD to macOS Mojave

I have a 2014 15”
Retina MacBook Pro that I bought second hand.
It is working great and from what I have been told, it should be able to
be updated to the current macOS. I recently tried to update it to the latest
version of macOS (Mojave) and got a strange message that said there was
something wrong with my third party storage.
I’m not really sure what that means since I am trying to do the upgrade
to my Macintosh HD. I took it to a local
electronics store that says it works on Macs but they weren’t much help, saying
they would have to investigate the problem and perhaps replace my hard
drive. That seems like a drastic
solution. Can you help?

Based on the information you provided it was difficult to
pinpoint your problem but after exchanging a couple of emails we determined
that the error you are referring to looks like this.

We were also able to figure out that whomever had the
MacBook Pro before you, upgraded the original hard drive to an OWC Aura Solid
State Drive (“SSD”).

OWC makes great products for the Mac and the Aura SSD is no
exception. The issue you have is
associated with the firmware on the SSD.
OWC provides detailed information on how to update the firmware of the
Aura SSD. There are two (2) files that
you need to download to accomplish the update.
One is an application called MarvellTray Firmware Utility and the other
is the actual firmware update that gets applied to the SSD using the
MarvellTray utility. You can find the
two files and detailed instructions here.

OWC still lists this list as a beta process so we strongly
suggest you have a full backup of your data before you start the upgrade
process. That said, we did the upgrade
on a machine just like yours and had no issues.

Once the firmware update is installed, you should be able to
install macOS Mojave (10.14) without issue.

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